Ever watch Farscape? In the first season, the main alien culture in that had – male and female – soldiers wearing eyeliner. Sadly, they dropped that idea later – probably because they didn’t want the audience to get the impression that the Peacekeepers weren’t badass.

(Or maybe that was just one squad of soldiers from an eyeliner-wearing world in the larger continuum of Sebacean culture… *g*)

Anyway: yay for the many ‘odd’ kinds of facial makeup in Finder! And yay for the current story, which I am absolutely delighted with. So much fascinating new stuff about Anvard, and about Coward’s tribe, and about Rachel. I’ve really grown to love Rachel a lot over the course of the series!

Also, yay for the comment function!

@Speed: did you ever get my mail re: my thesis? I still think the first third or so of it is pretty poor, but I got nominated for an award, so I must have done *something* right…